Software Engineer (Kubernetes)

CoreWeave; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Senior Production Engineer to ensure the availability, reliability, and scalability of one of the industry’s largest Kubernetes environments. You will drive operational excellence, implement robust automation, and shape the systems keeping CoreWeave’s cloud running smoothly.

You will build, operate, and scale Kubernetes-based production infrastructure, develop automation and IaC, and implement monitoring with Grafana-based tools to proactively resolve issues at scale.

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in infrastructure-focused programming (Go & Bash).
• Deep understanding of Linux systems.
• Proven experience with high-uptime, customer-facing systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure availability, reliability, and scalability of large Kubernetes environments.
• Drive operational excellence, automation, and robust tooling.
• Build, operate, and scale Kubernetes-based production infrastructure with reliability and performance.
• Develop automation, tooling, and IaC to enable zero-touch operations and rapid recovery.
• Design and maintain monitoring/observability using Grafana ecosystem.
• Lead incident response, on-call rotations, and postmortems to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with teams to meet SLAs and operational requirements.
• Engineer for resiliency and disaster recovery across distributed systems.
• Advocate for security, reliability, and performance improvements.
• Develop custom Kubernetes operators and orchestration frameworks for AI workloads at scale.
• Mentor engineers in production best practices and operational standards.

Skills

Go

Bash

Linux

Troubleshooting

System design

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

Loki

VictoriaMetrics

Job description

Job Responsibilities

• In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring the availability, reliability, and scalability of one of the industry’s largest Kubernetes environments
• As a senior member of the team, you will drive operational excellence, implement robust automation, and help shape the systems that keep CoreWeave’s cloud running smoothly
• Build, operate, and scale Kubernetes-based production infrastructure that delivers CoreWeave’s products with high reliability and performance
• Develop automation, tooling, and infrastructure as code in Go and other infrastructure-focused languages to enable zero-touch operations, rapid recovery, and seamless deployments
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions—leveraging the Grafana ecosystem and related tools—to proactively identify and resolve production issues
• Drive incident response efforts, participate in on-call rotations, and lead root cause analysis to prevent recurrence and improve incident handling processes
• Partner with internal and cross-functional teams to ensure platform capabilities meet rigorous operational requirements and customer SLAs
• Engineer for resiliency, implementing best practices for redundancy, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery across complex distributed systems
• Advocate for security, reliability, and performance improvements throughout the stack, continuously seeking opportunities to strengthen operational standards
• Contribute to the development of custom Kubernetes operators and intelligent orchestration frameworks that optimize AI workload performance and resource utilization at scale
• Mentor and support other engineers in production best practices, fostering a culture of high accountability and operational awareness

What Success Looks Like

• You deliver stable, robust, and highly-available systems that consistently meet or exceed uptime and performance targets
• You champion initiatives that drive automation, reduce operational toil, and increase the efficiency of incident response
• Your leadership in root cause analysis, postmortems, and process improvement makes the Kubernetes platform more resilient and scalable
• You actively contribute to a blameless culture of learning, mentoring others in operational best practices and production engineering principles
• You help CoreWeave maintain industry leadership through flawless execution in supporting demanding, AI-powered workloads at scale

Requirements

• Demonstrate strong proficiency in infrastructure-focused programming—especially in Go and Bash—and hold a deep understanding of Linux systems
• Possess expertise in monitoring, observability, and incident management using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, Loki, or VictoriaMetrics
• Have a proven track record managing high-uptime, customer-facing systems in a fast-moving environment, with experience delivering measurable improvements in reliability and performance
• Bring 3+ years of experience in production engineering, SRE, or large-scale infrastructure/platform roles
• Communicate clearly across technical and non-technical stakeholders, proactively sharing knowledge and advocating for operational best practices
• Are passionate about building systems that are not just functional, but robust, self-healing, and easy to operate at scale
• Are deeply knowledgeable in Kubernetes administration, container orchestration, and microservices architectures, with a bias for automating every aspect of operations
• Take pride in driving continuous improvement, and helping set high standards for operational excellence and team culture
• Excel at troubleshooting complex production issues, from system failures to performance bottlenecks, and approach problems methodically with strong analytical skills